Kew Palace, located on the grounds of Kew Gardens, is the smallest of all the royal palaces. Today, completely restored, the palace is open to the public and serves also ... read more
Kiftsgate Court, built in 1887-91 by Sydney Graves Hamilton, Kiftsgate Court is now the home of the Chambers family. Only the gardens can be visited. These beautiful ... read more
Kilkenny Castle's history goes back to 1195 and has been in the hands of the Butler family since 1391. In 1967 Arthur Butler, 6th Marquess and 24th Earl of ... read more
Killruddery House is the seat of the Brabazon family and presently inhabited by the fifteenth Earl and Countess of Meath, their son Lord Ardee, his wife Lady Ardee ... read more
Kingston Bagpuize House, dating back to 1660 and remodelled early 1700, it is the home of Virginia Grant and her family. The House and gardens are open to the ... read more
Kingston Maurward was built for George Pitt in 1720, encased in Portland Stone in 1794 by William Pitt, after a remark of King George III that he didn't like the ... read more
Kinross House dates back to the late 17th century and was built for Sir William Bruce. Until 2010 has been the home for 200 years of the Montgomery family. Since then it ... read more
Kiplin Hall, built in the early 1620s as a hunting lodge, has been in the hands of four, interconnected, families, until it was handed over to a trust in 1968. The ... read more
Kirby Hall is an Elizabethan and 17th century house, partly roofless. However the state rooms and Great Hall remain intact, refitted and redecorated according to 17th- and ... read more
Knebworth House is the ancestral home of the Lytton family. Today Knebworth is inhabited by Henry Lytton-Cobbold and his family. The House, with its family collections, ... read more
Knightshayes Court is a 19th century house in Gothic Revival style, and built for Sir John Heathcoat-Amory, 1st Baronet. His family has got wealthy by the lace-making ... read more
Knole goes back to the 13th century, but its main history starts with the Sackville family from late 16th century onwards. The family lives still there and shares the ... read more
Konopiste Castle (German: Konopischt) once residence of Austrian Crown-Prince Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his morganatic wife and nowadays still fully furnished with a ... read more
Kozel Castle, built as a Hunting Lodge at the end of the 18th century for Count Johan Adalbert Czernin. Presently it is used as museum and for cultural events such as ... read more
Krásný Dvůr Castle (German: Schönhof), a seat of the Czernin family until 1945, and surrounded by a 96 ha landscape park, is presently a castle-museum and is also ... read more
Kratochvile Castle is a pearl of Italian Renaissance in south Bohemia. Built by the Rožmberk family, but after 1719 property of the Schwarzenberg family, it is has been ... read more
Krengerup Manor, a Neoclassical manor and since 1770 owned by the Counts von Rantzau, locates on the estate two museums: the Flax Weaving Museum and the Škoda ... read more
Kretinga Manor was originally a private estate of the Counts Tyszkiewicz, who has acquired the estate in 1874. it was converted into a museum in 1992. The house contains ... read more
Kronovall Slott is Sweden's only wine-chateau. Dating back to 1760, the castle itself is used, for the main part, as a VIP Hotel. The castle and surrounding property ... read more
Kröller-Müller Museum has the second-largest collection, after the Van Gogh Museum, of paintings by Vincent van Gogh. The museum had been the idea of the art collector ... read more
